The existence in the wood of archetypal heroes and villains from across the ages, all living together at the same time, each in his own clothes and weapons. U pitanju je retko atmosferičan roman koji gotovo neprimetno uvlači čitaoca u priču i zarobljava ga, gotovo kao čarobna šuma oko koje pripovedač kruži veći deo knjige, a koja namami i njegovog oca i brata. The idea of crating a world in the misty areas where imagination, myth and dreams overlap and the resulting story kept me mesmerized from the first to the last page.

I had wanted to read it but for one reason or another it would just remain on the reading list, waiting. They are the manifestation of our collective memories of heroes that have been encoded into our unconscious mind by the memories and experiences of our ancestors. The girl is, we are explicitly told, born to suffer and inspire men to fight because of her suffering and sacrifice.I struggled with the disturbing undertone of the males' fascination with Guiwenneth, the mysterious female. The setting is convincing, though there were distracting missteps and aggravations that had me rolling my eyes. All of these battles are undertaken in the name of Gwyneth, an alluring mythago whose charms manage to enamour all of the Huxley men. Es una lectura estimulante, sugerente llena de buenas ideas y, en muchos sentidos, imaginada en estado de gracia. Steven and Christian, George's sons, could not understand why or what their father was pursuing in Mythago Wood.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. She is mentioned in Mythago Wood, but her suicide becomes a major issue in Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn. This is a profoundly creative book, and should not be lumped in with ninety-three volume series books about teenaged girls with Special Gifts and serious badass 'tudes.Modes of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Twelfth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy) (1st ed.

The creatures that live in these pages are magnificent - inspired by myths, but mutated into something threatening and grotesque. I was hoping for another all-time favorite, to join books like Oryx and Crake or The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Ryhope Wood may look like a three-mile-square fenced-in wood in rural Herefordshire on the outside, but inside, it is a primeval, intricate labyrinth of trees, impossibly huge, unforgettable … and stronger than time itself. I’m glad to say, however, that the food gets worse as things fall apart and the mythago world takes over reality!Christian is disturbed but intrigued by his encounters with one of the mythagos, while Stephen is confused and disbelieving when Christian explains the enigma of the wood. I’ve seldomly read a book that is so rich and enthralling in its descriptions and really draws me into the mythical woods, where time flows differently, where your subconscious can conjure up archetypes and these can infringe upon your very real life outside of the forest. Le Guin's "low fantasy" novel The Beginning Place and George Meredith's poem The Woods of Westermain.

I absolutely loved this book- it's true that it's slow moving at times, and takes a while to get into the thick(et) of things. Will the real world have distorted tales of Steven and myself, and our quest to avenge the Outsider's abduction? They all know that the woman whom they are fixated on isn't real--the author goes to great pains let us know through them that she is made of branches, leaves and soil. by offering us tougher questions, moral dilemmas, an imagined world far more complex than anything found in the wood's precursors".

La historia nos narra como cuando Steven Huxley vuelve a casa tras luchar en la 2ª Guerra Mundial donde teóricamente le esperan su hermano Christian y una misteriosa joven llamada Guiwenneth; en realidad se encuentra con un persona descuidad y solitaria, aquejada por los miedos y las obsesiones que también había tenido su fallecido padre, tanto con el bosque que rodea su hogar como por la joven desaparecida.